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05/26/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 5: Got hurt, you got to do.
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Speaker 3: Let's all go for.
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Speaker 1: All of you. Let's do our to kick and check from.
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Speaker 3: God?
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Speaker 1: He doing what you're doing?
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Speaker 1: Enough for you. Watch you to be party of professional.
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Speaker 2: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 2: game like I know you can play it Withdrew Alton,
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Speaker 2: mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, this man's been out all night. Armand sorry.
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Speaker 2: Ready, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 1: It's a glorious Tuesday in the Goodland, a Tuesday that
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Speaker 1: feels like a Monday. Welcome in whatever day it is.
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Speaker 1: Today's edition of the Huddle Up. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: is going to rock rivers, shake legs, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: question authority as much as we can. And Drew Wilson,
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Speaker 1: Bill Schmid, armand sorrying everybody are refreshed and relaxed after
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Speaker 1: a Memorial Day weekend.
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Speaker 5: Always do in Drew, that is h That's gonna be
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Speaker 5: the conundrum all week long, figuring out what day it
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Speaker 5: is where where the internal clock ends up being. But
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Speaker 5: a very rest and rejuvenated weekend always good to be
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Speaker 5: hanging out. Get some good perspective and some sunshine and
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Speaker 5: heat across the good Land makes it even.
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Speaker 1: Better spectacular And uh yeah, boys, we had the Brewers
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Speaker 1: play the Dodgers didn't well well in the back end
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Speaker 1: of that series. They won Friday night, they won again
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Speaker 1: and yesterday, but the Cubs have lost nine in a row.
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Speaker 1: That's a glorious, glorious shot in freud. And they've had two,
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Speaker 1: They've had two ten game winning streaks this year. Let's
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Speaker 1: make the grand gesture. Let's balance it out with a
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Speaker 1: ten game losing streak. Let's lose another. Holy eighty seven
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Speaker 1: crew of the Cubs. I love that. I love that.
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Speaker 1: That ode to team streak, Like.
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Speaker 5: We might as well just be doctor check Omester had
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Speaker 5: all year long and have some fun and keep everybody
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Speaker 5: guessing and keep the breed to the yellows in business
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Speaker 5: there on the Instagram.
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Speaker 3: Oh she's still in business. I mean, you know, just
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Speaker 3: when she needs to get the engagement, you know, she
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Speaker 3: knows where to get it. But that's not that's besides
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Speaker 3: the point. Billy, You're right though you did mention in
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Speaker 3: the eighty seven Brewers. It's kind of funny because that
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Speaker 3: was last year, your thing for the Brewers for a
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Speaker 3: while last year, until they just.
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Speaker 6: Got white hot all through the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: It was like, hey, that was maybe that was the
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Speaker 3: other team streak, but this one is really crazy. I mean,
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Speaker 3: when you're not even into JUNI yet and you already
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Speaker 3: had three streaks like that, it is pretty remarkable. So hey,
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Speaker 3: that that's baseball, right, winning streaks and losing streaks, but
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Speaker 3: it was.
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Speaker 6: It's pretty amazing.
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Speaker 3: To see a team that was so hot for a
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Speaker 3: while just can't win a game at all.
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Speaker 6: But that's why we watched sports. That's baseball, right.
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Speaker 1: Gota love it. Hashtag baseball, hashtag sports. Now we've also
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Speaker 1: come a long way, and you know, here we are.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty soon we'll we'll be on to June.
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Speaker 1: He flew through this month, flew flew through May. But
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Speaker 1: we are on the cusp of going from last year,
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Speaker 1: the the kerfuffalo around the Midsummer Classic and Miss's involvement,
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Speaker 1: going from where it was debatable whether he belonged in
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game after six big league appearances last year.
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Speaker 1: Now it's like if he doesn't start, there's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a federal investigation.
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Speaker 5: It's incredible. I heard Mookie Betts sat down with with
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Speaker 5: Miz at the Fister this past weekend while the Dodgers
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Speaker 5: were in town for his podcast, and he made a
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Speaker 5: joke of it drew where he laughed, He's like, so
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Speaker 5: last year you were in the All Star Game after
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Speaker 5: five games, not gonna be yelling about.
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Speaker 1: It now, But how did you deal with that?
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Speaker 5: Because in the phenomenon, feel that it was what six
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Speaker 5: innings of no hit ball to start and then perfect
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Speaker 5: in Minnesota until the homer welcomed him into the big leagues.
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Speaker 1: Uh, he has.
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Speaker 5: Somehow been better in twenty twenty six consistently and thirty
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Speaker 5: one and a third innings pitched across five starts in
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Speaker 5: the month of May.
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Speaker 1: We say mis day has been win day.
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Speaker 5: Uh, the month of May is miss month because my
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Speaker 5: man was just untouchable throughout with a point twenty nine
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Speaker 5: ERA in the month.
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Speaker 1: That's disgusting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, nearly got the scoreless month, but yesterday gave up
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Speaker 3: that run, So that would have been that would have
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Speaker 3: been the Zeros all the way through. And Yeah, the
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Speaker 3: only thing laughable now, the only thing people were laughing
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Speaker 3: at now is trying to hit that one hundred and
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Speaker 3: three mile hour plus fastball. Yeah, he's certainly, he's certainly
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Speaker 3: uh backed up what he did last year and and
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Speaker 3: all those things, and now he's passed Skemes. I think
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Speaker 3: in the betting market for cy Young Sanchez is still
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Speaker 3: a favorite. I think Christopher Sanchez, but it'd be hard
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Speaker 3: pressed not to see that path for him if he
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Speaker 3: if he keeps going this way, what he's doing is
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Speaker 3: truly remarkable and a sight to behold. I would say,
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Speaker 3: he threw fifty seven pitches and triple digits yesterday, crazy.
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Speaker 1: And the heater was working. Didn't really need a lot
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Speaker 1: of other stuff because he's just thrown at the top
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Speaker 1: of the zone heater and saying here hit it. Just crazy,
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Speaker 1: unbelievable standing that over seven innings.
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Speaker 3: Then that's the other thing he got through seven ninety
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Speaker 3: plus pitches. That's one thing we kind of hadn't seen
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Speaker 3: yet was can he stretch it off for that type
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Speaker 3: of performance? And wait, when that happens, you always get
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Speaker 3: a little nervous. It's like this guy really taxing it,
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Speaker 3: you know, for this long. But he was able to
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Speaker 3: do it yesterday. He was on points. So all right,
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Speaker 3: So anybody who took anybody who was took the defeatist attitude,
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Speaker 3: your negative eors out there saying, oh, the Brewers can't
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Speaker 3: beat the Dodgers, Well they when they.
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Speaker 1: Won Friday night. That pushed there. What there? When he
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Speaker 1: speak to like ten in a row regular season over
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, that sounds right yup And then they get spanked.
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Speaker 1: It's just slapped back to Earth on Saturday and Sunday.
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Speaker 1: But now you can make the case both ways. But
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Speaker 1: the Brewers weren't. This wasn't their playoff rotation per se, right,
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Speaker 1: So it just like you would in a playoff series.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers is gonna see mizz They're gonna see Harrison,
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Speaker 1: They're gonna see the top of the of the rotation.
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Speaker 1: But the Dodgers are still really good. And by god,
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Speaker 1: there's rumors now that they might trade for Tarik Schooble,
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Speaker 1: in which case we might as well just make the
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Speaker 1: whole the whole rest of the years for second place.
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Speaker 5: Well why would you not, I mean, at that point
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Speaker 5: you might as well. Right, you just signed Kyle Tucker
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Speaker 5: to sixty million. He hits two triples over the weekend,
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Speaker 5: and it just this disgusting amount of talent drew and
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Speaker 5: it was it was funny to actually look at the
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Speaker 5: lineup card on the jumbo tron on on Friday and
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Speaker 5: sat on Saturday and Sunday, because you just laugh. You're like,
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Speaker 5: these are this is a collection of five or six
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Speaker 5: of the best players of a generation. Yea, all on
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Speaker 5: the same team, all wearing the same Dodger blue.
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Speaker 1: It is incredible. You look at their kind of their Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: back here among the tired strip club ad guys, the
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Speaker 1: guys that don't sell a lot of jerseys. Like if
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Speaker 1: you took Max Munsey and put him on the Brewers,
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Speaker 1: he'd be over the moon. Yes, like, oh we got
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Speaker 1: our third basement's got some popp he's a good player.
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Speaker 1: This is amazing. Well, and how we get an afterthought
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Speaker 1: in that roster. It's like, oh, yeah, they got him too. Jeez,
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Speaker 1: want to face in with guys on base?
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Speaker 5: And how disrespectful is their bullpen? What did they not
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Speaker 5: giving up a run in like forty the thirty innings
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Speaker 5: or something like that. It was like a new Dodger
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Speaker 5: record that kept flashing up on the screen. No, you
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Speaker 5: can't have everything. You get the greatest lineup ever created
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Speaker 5: since murderers row and now all you get is an
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Speaker 5: untouchable bullpen that was the thing last year has bolted
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Speaker 5: into the wall that I just kept hanging my hat on.
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Speaker 5: I was like, Rowers can touch up that bullpen if
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Speaker 5: they can ever see it, if they.
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Speaker 1: Could ever get to it.
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Speaker 5: I think the bullpen through what one inning in Milwaukee
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Speaker 5: across the Snell and Yamamoto starts in the in the CS,
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Speaker 5: and now it's unhittable. So Andrew Freeman was luckily enough
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Speaker 5: able to rectify that because God bless him. I don't
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Speaker 5: know how Dodger fans sat through those seventh and eighth innings,
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Speaker 5: but the the that's baseball moment, and and thinking back,
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Speaker 5: knowing that this rotation will be much different, and maybe
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Speaker 5: it'll be a Henderson, hopefully a Woodruff, miss Harrison. That one, two,
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Speaker 5: three is gonna go up, and I'll line up against
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Speaker 5: anybody if we can make it with that crew to
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Speaker 5: the postseason, because God bless Brandon Sprote and I know that.
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Speaker 5: Murph said on Sunday, laughable, y'all think we're taking him
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Speaker 5: out of the rotation, all right, It's comical that you
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Speaker 5: think that he's not getting another start. He is in
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Speaker 5: this rotating because he's gonna be good. He's gonna be legit.
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Speaker 5: He's luckily not going to be one of your three
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Speaker 5: starters in the playoffs because they have a front line
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Speaker 5: that's just as good, if not better than any other
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Speaker 5: one you're lining up and ball.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a good point about the bullpen, Billy,
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Speaker 3: you know you didn't do about that. But like the bullpen,
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Speaker 3: you know, in different spots, the middle, bullpen, middle relief.
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Speaker 3: It can be just in general like the soft underbelly
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Speaker 3: of teams, or at least like the teams. It can
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Speaker 3: be the most random parts of teams, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: You know, sometimes bullpen can go in and can go out.
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Speaker 3: Guys you think that are good aren't consistent from year
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Speaker 3: to year. But when you have a team that good
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Speaker 3: and then you also happen to have like, yeah, a
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Speaker 3: bullpen that just turns out to yeah, be super osmal
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Speaker 3: by the way, Tanner Scott, like all these guys, it's
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Speaker 3: just pretty Yeah, it's pretty impressive, like you're gonna be
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Speaker 3: good and you're gonna have good fortune, Like things are
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Speaker 3: gonna go your way to man, what a charm life.
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Speaker 6: They're leading over there.
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Speaker 3: So, uh, the Dodgers, the Dodgers do have things going
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Speaker 3: for them right now. There's there's no question about it.
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Speaker 3: And that's a funny observation made about the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you think the Dodgers they kind of going on.
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Speaker 1: They figured out I think they figured out this baseball thing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they figured out the baseball and and luckily enough
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Speaker 5: the Brewers will only have to see him three or
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Speaker 5: four more times during the regular season. But when when
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Speaker 5: Jacob Mesrowski is pumping that kind of gas throughout the
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Speaker 5: throughout the entire afternoon, A good time to be blessed
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Speaker 5: Banking America in praise and Matt Arnold for understanding when
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Speaker 5: to grab him in the sixty third pick overall, because
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Speaker 5: he is a hilarious, hilarious human being and the buddy,
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Speaker 5: the elf from Giannis Drew that we enjoyed so long.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, does it feel like it's transferring a little
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Speaker 5: bit over to the Pokemon man of Jacob Mazerowski?
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Speaker 1: Does a little bit? Feels like he's getting.
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Speaker 5: The Uh, we're protecting this young man at all costs. However,
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Speaker 5: we're just gonna let you know that he's a little nerdy.
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Speaker 5: While he's throwing one hundred and three right by your face.
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Speaker 5: It's almost like just a rubbing it in and twisting
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Speaker 5: the knife just to tick. Another day where he throws
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Speaker 5: ten plus k's and somehow I laugh about it each time.
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Speaker 5: So I feel like we've asked, does he get better?
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Speaker 5: Can he get better?
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Speaker 1: Can he get better?
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Speaker 5: Fifty seven pitches over one hundred that was Is that
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Speaker 5: the ceiling or is that just the new norm of
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Speaker 5: what he.
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Speaker 1: Can end up touching. That's a great question that we
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Speaker 1: shall see. Stay tuned, we'll have Hunter Bombguard's recap. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Hunter Bombguart's going to join the program today. Talk a little.
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Speaker 1: Brewers gotta win the series. I gotta keep winning series,
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Speaker 1: keep clicking them off. They took a step back with
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Speaker 1: a loss against the Dodgers, but hey, here come the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: I had and you guys, sometimes I have deep thoughts
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Speaker 1: while in the shower or driving to the megaplex.
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Speaker 3: Those are usually where I do my best thinking that.
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Speaker 3: And I'm a throne. Yeah yeah, yeah, when you're signaling
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Speaker 3: for the curve. Well, I was thinking about the I
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Speaker 3: was thinking about the the whole landscape of this Milwaukee
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Speaker 3: Chicago Brewers Cubs thing, and it's so front of mine
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Speaker 3: for us for obvious reasons. Right, But then I think
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Speaker 3: about the history of it, and I think about the
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Speaker 3: way that I think of the Cardinals in many ways.
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Speaker 3: For many years, I've thought that the Cardinals are kind
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Speaker 3: of like the Packers of baseball. It's this monolithic team
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Speaker 3: with all the one hundred year history and going back
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Speaker 3: to the gas House Gang and all the black and
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Speaker 3: white photos and stuff, and that the majesty of Opening
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Speaker 3: Day and their market penetration and the fervent fans and
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Speaker 3: people who wear red and people who treat Bush Stadium
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Speaker 3: in the ballpark village like it's a church.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's their Lambeau, and it's very, very many parallels.
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Speaker 1: But then I thought about, in the landscape of things,
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Speaker 1: the Brewers, you're gonna have to You're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: feel me on this one. When it comes to the
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Speaker 1: Chicago rivalry landscape, the Brewers are the Minnesota Vikings because
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Speaker 1: Cubs Cardinals is wasn't always will be the hated, bitter
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Speaker 1: rivalry with all the history gone dormant because the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: and Cubs haven't been good kind of concurrently in a while.
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Speaker 1: They had the Sosa McGuire thing they had, they haven't
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Speaker 1: been like have they had playoff battles. Have they had
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Speaker 1: like what the Brewers have had recently with the Cubs
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Speaker 1: the visional battles. So it's been a while for that.
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Speaker 1: But like that's the sleeping giant and right now Cubs
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Speaker 1: chance screw Milwaukee and it's tied in with the Packers too,
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Speaker 1: the Brewers getting very much the Packers, so there's baggage there.
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Speaker 1: But in terms of if the Cardinals get good and
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Speaker 1: they look like they're on their way, they're still you know,
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Speaker 1: evolving that they got some good players there. They got
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Speaker 1: some really nice young players in that line up. I
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Speaker 1: think they Yeah, the recent years were the kind of
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Speaker 1: rock bottom for They've got some good players in that
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Speaker 1: lineup and they're on their way back. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that they're as good as Brewers right now, obviously in
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Speaker 1: terms of standard. It's just even for the long haul. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals remind me of when the Brewers were the
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Speaker 1: upstarts and it was this time of year and all
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals guys. But yeah, your team is nice, but
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Speaker 1: they won't be around in August.
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Speaker 5: But we're excited to be able to take a couple
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Speaker 5: of those bullpen guys off of you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but right now, the Cub's Cardinals rivalry is Packers Bears,
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Speaker 1: and it's lying dormant and Brewers Cubs is Packers Vikings,
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Speaker 1: and so for a generations people, that's the rival. We
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Speaker 1: hate them. They're closer. But if the Cardinals get good,
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Speaker 1: it's going to swing back around to what we're seeing now,
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Speaker 1: Whereas it's like, ah, the Vikings, yeah we don't really
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Speaker 1: like them, but it's the Bears now, yeah, we can't
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Speaker 1: stand them. Bears are the team that beat them and
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Speaker 1: unseated them. So that was my theory driving in is
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Speaker 1: my logic flood.
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Speaker 5: No, And I think there's even more parallels that you
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Speaker 5: can throw in here, right because the Bear, Bears and Packers,
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Speaker 5: despite putting just some really awful matchups and displays of
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Speaker 5: professional tackle football on the field in prime time for
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Speaker 5: about a decade and a half, networks are still putting
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Speaker 5: it on there, just like I guess I haven't. I
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Speaker 5: can't say that I've tapped in much on the new
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Speaker 5: Sunday Night Baseball, But how's Brewers and Dodgers rematch of
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Speaker 5: the NLCS from a year ago not on Sunday Night Baseball.
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Speaker 6: Because they don't necessarily care.
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Speaker 5: Now, how many times will there be Cubs and Cardinals,
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Speaker 5: Probably once or twice a year because of the two
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Speaker 5: brands going back and forth, and that matchup will hit
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Speaker 5: people from ages twelve to eighty two, right, because you
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Speaker 5: will remember all of the years that have spanned through
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Speaker 5: and it's a great comparison. Also, the FARV Council comparison
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Speaker 5: and marriage brings that Vikings parallel right alongside like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think even though I think in your scenario
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Speaker 3: the Cubs of the Packers, which is hard for me
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Speaker 3: to stomach, I think metaphorically, I think it's totally accurate because.
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Speaker 1: Oh, he said the Cardinals are the.
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Speaker 6: Packers, All the Cardinals are the Packers this.
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Speaker 1: And not listen to the start of the whole thing
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Speaker 1: I did.
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Speaker 3: But the way I think of it is, the Cubs
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Speaker 3: are the Packers are in the Vikings of the Brewers.
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Speaker 3: Right in this scenario, the Brewers are annoying the Cubs
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Speaker 3: like the Vikings have annoyed the Packers. I guess that's
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Speaker 3: my that's my comparison here because because lately it's been
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Speaker 3: the Vikings. Lately, it's been the Brewers annoying the Cubs, Yes,
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Speaker 3: but their historic rival. Yeah, But I guess I think
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Speaker 3: of the Vikings that way and more. I think the
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Speaker 3: Vikings annoying the Packers more than the Bears in more
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Speaker 3: recent vintage, except for this last year. I guess with
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Speaker 3: Caleb and and Company starting to become good again, I
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Speaker 3: understand what you're saying.
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Speaker 5: I guess you just don't want to give any any
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Speaker 5: bit of shred of credit to anybody other than a
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Speaker 5: Wisconsin team.
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Speaker 6: Well, no, it's not total.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 3: Why the Vikings are the team that I really despise
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Speaker 3: because they're they're just bothering me all the time, whereas
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Speaker 3: I see Cubs pack are Bears Packers. Is that traditional
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Speaker 3: rivalry like Cubs Cardinals? So I think about I was
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Speaker 3: thinking of it that way as a Cubs fan, I
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Speaker 3: would look at the Vikings.
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Speaker 1: How have the Vikings annoyed you the last couple of years?
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Speaker 6: The last couple they haven't.
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Speaker 3: But just in the last okay, yeah, the last ten,
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Speaker 3: last eight to ten they have. They've been the team
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Speaker 3: I've just had this special distaste.
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Speaker 5: For, right That's why. So the brewers of the team,
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Speaker 5: they're into.
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Speaker 1: The Cubs fans right now, they don't really care that
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Speaker 1: much about the Cardinals. Cardinals are beneath them. Who cares?
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Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's the flavor of the day,
16:27
Speaker 1: and we're a short attention span society. But I'm just saying,
16:30
Speaker 1: if the Cardinals get good and the Cubs battle them,
16:33
Speaker 1: Cubs fans the game that they want to go to
16:34
Speaker 1: is not Milwaukee, it's Saint Louis because that's the team
16:37
Speaker 1: that they really hate. It's just been covered up and
16:40
Speaker 1: camouflaged by the fact that they haven't been competing in
16:43
Speaker 1: high level. Yeah.
16:45
Speaker 5: And also it shows the separations of that state, right
16:48
Speaker 5: where like even though the south side that's like the
16:51
Speaker 5: south side of Chicago, I don't know that anybody in Jacksonville,
16:54
Speaker 5: Illinois watches the White Sox, right, Like, I don't know
16:56
Speaker 5: that anybody in Springfield really cares about it all. It's
17:00
Speaker 5: all Cardinals and Cubs, right, So, like that.
17:04
Speaker 1: State Illinois is not just Chicago, right.
17:06
Speaker 5: Even though you think, like, oh, I'm from southern Illinois.
17:09
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so you're from one of the southern suburbs,
17:11
Speaker 5: like they almost have it like the line of demarcation
17:14
Speaker 5: is through the Ryan Freeway, and that's just not necessarily
17:17
Speaker 5: the case. I do think one of my favorite parts
17:20
Speaker 5: of what I do, one of my favorite parts of
17:23
Speaker 5: the comparison is the fact that we get to be
17:27
Speaker 5: the annoying pest that you just can't swat the net
17:31
Speaker 5: that just keeps hitting you and you just can't swat it,
17:33
Speaker 5: even though you're on fifteen and one and drumming teams
17:36
Speaker 5: in the regular season. Yeah, sure, you get skulled by
17:40
Speaker 5: the New York Giants in the NFC Championship game. The
17:43
Speaker 5: comparison is actually really good if you keep thinking about
17:46
Speaker 5: the Packers of the Vikings. Yeah, I don't like how
17:48
Speaker 5: good it is, but there's a lot more parallels that
17:50
Speaker 5: would match up even better.
17:52
Speaker 1: How often have the Packers and Vikings played in the playoffs,
17:55
Speaker 1: because that's a part of it.
17:56
Speaker 5: Three or four times, the shoe web game, web game,
18:03
Speaker 5: it's happened.
18:04
Speaker 6: It's happened at.
18:04
Speaker 1: Least three times. And they've played the Bears a couple
18:06
Speaker 1: of times.
18:07
Speaker 5: Notably, the Bears have played They played the Bears three
18:10
Speaker 5: times twice in the modern era, once back in the
18:12
Speaker 5: forties and then this and then the three times against
18:15
Speaker 5: the Vikings.
18:16
Speaker 3: Super recent vintage, obviously fresh in our minds is the Bears,
18:19
Speaker 3: Packers and and the NC Championship game. I would say,
18:22
Speaker 3: but you know, in the Driver Jamem Walker, kind of
18:24
Speaker 3: like the mid two thousands, we were picking up the
18:27
Speaker 3: Vikings a lot.
18:27
Speaker 6: It seemed like.
18:29
Speaker 1: You mentioned Sunday Nights Baseball Pilloy.
18:30
Speaker 3: Last night they served up Yankees at Royals because you
18:35
Speaker 3: know Yankees.
18:36
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good one. But I bet if they
18:39
Speaker 1: had a do over the idea of having mis pitch
18:42
Speaker 1: and especially like when you got guys like Passing and
18:44
Speaker 1: Buster only in my my nerdy buddies, the salivating, I mean,
18:50
Speaker 1: they're oh man, they would have been all in on
18:52
Speaker 1: billing the whole show around Miserawski yesterday.
18:55
Speaker 5: And I think you're starting to see more and more
18:58
Speaker 5: national outfits doing that, right. They're like, Hey, if anybody's
19:02
Speaker 5: not watching this superhuman Pokemon that's throwing pitches for the Brewers,
19:06
Speaker 5: you might want to watch how wild this extension is
19:09
Speaker 5: and all this nonsense that he's got because that one
19:11
Speaker 5: hundred and three just we're seeing a lot of guys
19:14
Speaker 5: throw one hundred mile an hour gas.
19:15
Speaker 1: It looks different coming from that six foot seven frame.
19:18
Speaker 3: It certainly does. He didn't have to throw a lot
19:19
Speaker 3: of other pitches. Yes, it was mostly the heater.
19:21
Speaker 5: That's got to be just that's got to just be
19:24
Speaker 5: the best feeling. I mean, that's like playing basketball and
19:28
Speaker 5: all you're doing is calling for the ball in the paint.
19:30
Speaker 5: Let me see I think one more time, and let
19:32
Speaker 5: me see I think one more time, stopping me quick
19:34
Speaker 5: little hook, quick, little baby hook, and you're just drumming
19:37
Speaker 5: these guys left and right. That's gotta be a good time,
19:39
Speaker 5: all right.
19:39
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a Tuesday that feels like a
19:41
Speaker 1: Monday because we're all back at it after well, most
19:43
Speaker 1: of us didn't work yesterday, so and it was glorious.
19:47
Speaker 5: I was doing some real work on that trigger. Tho,
19:49
Speaker 5: I'll tell you glorious. We'll talk about our weekends.
19:52
Speaker 1: But because we missed the Monday program and because we
19:56
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20:13
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20:15
Speaker 1: Tuesday that feels like a Monday. Well, the compass is
20:17
Speaker 1: off all summer because you never really know what that
20:19
Speaker 1: is because tays off you're on vacation. Yeah, you're squeezing
20:22
Speaker 1: it in. So it's gonna be fun. Thursdays sometimes feel
20:25
Speaker 1: like Fridays in the summer. If you hit, if you
20:27
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20:29
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20:34
Speaker 1: we're on the Summerfest and that starts on Thursday, and
20:37
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20:38
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20:39
Speaker 1: We had Broadfest in Madison. I want to hear from
20:41
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20:43
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20:45
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20:47
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Speaker 4: Chance at stage one, frth hold run of the Year.
21:12
Speaker 1: He goes the opposite way again, Slipper Toy Brewer's TV
21:17
Speaker 1: Yesterday's opening salvo from Christian Yelich. Life is good when
21:20
Speaker 1: yelloch Homer's in the first inning, Brewers getting off to
21:24
Speaker 1: good starts. That's a good thing to do when you
21:26
Speaker 1: got good pitching. Give him some runs early and let
21:29
Speaker 1: them let the pitchers do their thing.
21:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, get get the runs early and then just shut
21:33
Speaker 5: it down, which is not necessarily the worst thing you
21:36
Speaker 5: attack on a couple later on into the game. But
21:38
Speaker 5: when your big man's gonna give you a pop like that,
21:40
Speaker 5: it'll be a lot easier to feel confident rolling through.
21:44
Speaker 5: I mean that man when he has a swing like
21:47
Speaker 5: that rolling and we've seen a couple that have connected
21:50
Speaker 5: to a different level that one just sneaks over. But
21:53
Speaker 5: that power bat to left field is a that's when
21:56
Speaker 5: you know he's rolling right.
21:57
Speaker 3: It's so important to see that, you know, because because
22:00
Speaker 3: I feel like this seems just not gonna hit a lot.
22:02
Speaker 6: Of home runs.
22:02
Speaker 3: So when Yellow hits them, it's important because you counted
22:05
Speaker 3: him to do it. A lot of fans count him
22:06
Speaker 3: to do it, and and no matter how, no matter
22:08
Speaker 3: if it's right or wrong, people are always gonna look
22:10
Speaker 3: to him to to take care of business when you
22:13
Speaker 3: need it because of the contract.
22:15
Speaker 6: So it's it's great to see him.
22:16
Speaker 3: And Bairey mentioned it's so true when you see him
22:19
Speaker 3: flashing power of all fields, you know he's feeling good.
22:21
Speaker 3: And that's always the the looming specter of uh you know,
22:26
Speaker 3: in the back of your mind.
22:27
Speaker 6: With yellows so really hitting.
22:28
Speaker 3: Two sixty two, plugging eight hundred, he's.
22:34
Speaker 1: Plugging eight hundreds. That would be wild if you yeah,
22:39
Speaker 1: slugging ops W eight good? That right? I mean, that's
22:42
Speaker 1: that's the borderline all Star number, isn't it? Right?
22:45
Speaker 5: Like the seven hundred is kind of major league gaverage.
22:46
Speaker 5: Maybe it's take a look above it.
22:48
Speaker 1: Who's the highest ops in the Brews right now? Bryce Ring, Yeah, gotta.
22:52
Speaker 6: Be say him or William Yeah? I was gonna say.
22:54
Speaker 5: Well, and Contreur still hasn't really found the power stroke.
22:57
Speaker 5: As we were mentioning a little bit yesterday, it feels
22:59
Speaker 5: like he's last week, feels like he's starting to get there.
23:02
Speaker 1: But I mean the hit parade that he has been
23:04
Speaker 1: on has just been a smashing right now, and the
23:07
Speaker 1: offense looks more functional. But yeah, the bust. Those tack
23:09
Speaker 1: on runs in the sixth and seventh yesterday were big,
23:11
Speaker 1: but the three runs to start was all mis needed.
23:14
Speaker 1: Birs win five to one. Cardinals only had two hits.
23:17
Speaker 1: We've seen games where the Cardinals had The Cardinals had
23:19
Speaker 1: two hits in an error. The other day, the Bruce
23:22
Speaker 1: played a team that had three hit errors and two hits.
23:24
Speaker 5: Like, come on, yeah and listen, as long as the
23:27
Speaker 5: Brewers aren't walking twenty three guys and across three games
23:30
Speaker 5: like the Dodgers this weekend.
23:32
Speaker 1: You're gonna win most games here.
23:33
Speaker 5: You're gonna be able to have a lot more success,
23:37
Speaker 5: especially that guy starts locating it and he has been
23:41
Speaker 5: all month, five straight starts, thirty one and a third
23:43
Speaker 5: innings pitch and he's giving up one run, giving up
23:46
Speaker 5: one run and debatably, I think the lack of walks
23:50
Speaker 5: is almost the bigger stat for mis for how many
23:53
Speaker 5: control problems. He kind of felt like he was gonna have.
23:56
Speaker 5: You saw early on, there's six walks in the month.
23:59
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
24:00
Speaker 1: I was at his start before this one and at
24:04
Speaker 1: home and he didn't get the three ball counts barely
24:07
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, barely. And that's a lot of that
24:09
Speaker 1: is because guy's got a swing early against and you
24:10
Speaker 1: don't want get deep in account of this, dude, because
24:13
Speaker 1: like if you have to guess fastball slider, you're already cooked.
24:15
Speaker 1: You have to hope to hit the first straight one,
24:18
Speaker 1: you see. You kind of got to try to put
24:19
Speaker 1: it in play.
24:19
Speaker 5: And I was so happy for him with that little
24:22
Speaker 5: uh when he dropped that curve. I think it was
24:24
Speaker 5: to end the sixth inning. Maybe, man, it's like eighty
24:27
Speaker 5: five miles an hour, and he turns around because he
24:29
Speaker 5: knows that he's going to show him up, and he
24:30
Speaker 5: does the I just hit a sweet step back jumper
24:32
Speaker 5: in your face to.
24:35
Speaker 1: It's a deep breath.
24:36
Speaker 5: Oh, he was feeling himself out there, and that kind
24:40
Speaker 5: of confidence that swagger is uh is palpable. It's also
24:44
Speaker 5: a little thunder and lightning, because now Kyle Harrison, just
24:47
Speaker 5: like Sga, just all substance, going to run out there
24:50
Speaker 5: tonight and just shove for six or seven innings and
24:53
Speaker 5: smile and probably be as emotionless as any human being
24:57
Speaker 5: as I've ever seen, which I love the stoic nature
25:00
Speaker 5: as well.
25:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, no reaction. He always looks annoyed when he's coming
25:03
Speaker 6: off the mound when he pitches a great inning.
25:04
Speaker 3: For some reason, Kyle Harrison is always like man man
25:07
Speaker 3: like looking looking annoyed like that. You know that George
25:09
Speaker 3: Costanza got a fake looking busy at work to make
25:12
Speaker 3: people make sure no matter what he does, he's mowing
25:14
Speaker 3: down hitters.
25:15
Speaker 6: He always looks annoyed.
25:15
Speaker 3: So I like that thunder and lighting and mis definitely
25:18
Speaker 3: has that kind of swagger and excitement. Abottom, although in
25:20
Speaker 3: the most gangly kind of dorky style you can get,
25:22
Speaker 3: which I think will serve him well.
25:24
Speaker 6: It's already served him all in big games.
25:26
Speaker 3: But you're right, Drew, it's the it's the reduction of
25:30
Speaker 3: the walks and the control that's been the biggest change
25:32
Speaker 3: in him over his last year. When he shot on
25:34
Speaker 3: the scene, you know, I mean, he had that amazing
25:37
Speaker 3: start obviously that hit that rough patch and pitch well
25:40
Speaker 3: again in the playoffs, But the inconsistency last year was
25:43
Speaker 3: mostly because of the control. And the fact is when
25:46
Speaker 3: when hitters in the back of their mind know that
25:49
Speaker 3: he's he's controlling the ball well, it makes them approach
25:51
Speaker 3: to the app batt a lot differently, makes them, you know,
25:53
Speaker 3: makes mis that much more dangerous and much more of
25:55
Speaker 3: a threat because they know I can't just sit on
25:58
Speaker 3: I can't just sit on these pitches any more. Hopes
26:00
Speaker 3: hope he he sprays it wild and miss has reduced
26:03
Speaker 3: that a lot, and everything else has fallen into place
26:06
Speaker 3: for him.
26:06
Speaker 6: You can reach us, we'll see at.
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26:19
Speaker 1: Boss kicks of the Balls. But first, let's take a
26:22
Speaker 1: listen to Hunter Bombgart's recap of the proceedings yesterday at
26:25
Speaker 1: American Family Field. Our baseball correspondent will join us seven
26:30
Speaker 1: to twenty five today. Take it away, Hunter, Thanks guys.
26:35
Speaker 2: It was another magnificent performance from Jacob Mazerowski, this time
26:38
Speaker 2: on Memorial Day as the Burgers get the five to
26:40
Speaker 2: one win over the Saint Louis Cardinals. Misserowski now with
26:42
Speaker 2: one hundred strikeouts on the season that leads Major League Baseball.
26:45
Speaker 2: He had twelve strikeouts only allowed one run over seven
26:49
Speaker 2: innings yesterday. Twelve strikeouts ties his career high. He did
26:52
Speaker 2: it against the Dodgers last July, which is crazy to
26:55
Speaker 2: think about it. In his first month in the majors.
26:56
Speaker 2: He set his career high of twelve against a team
26:59
Speaker 2: like the La Dodgers, but this year might even be
27:02
Speaker 2: more impressive. One hundred strikeouts on the season that leads
27:04
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. Five games with ten plus strikeouts this
27:09
Speaker 2: season for miz that also leads Major League Baseball. He
27:13
Speaker 2: talked about why the fastball was working so well yesterday, we'll.
27:16
Speaker 6: Rebuying on the heater and you know, trusting that I
27:19
Speaker 6: can get away with.
27:20
Speaker 4: The heaters up You mentioned leaning on that fastball, not
27:23
Speaker 4: and feeling good about it.
27:24
Speaker 5: Is today up there for the most that you've been
27:26
Speaker 5: able to rely on that pitch.
27:29
Speaker 1: I felt normal.
27:30
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously I threw it a little more than usual,
27:33
Speaker 5: but it was working, so I kind of just that
27:35
Speaker 5: was normal usage, I feel now.
27:38
Speaker 2: One of the things Jacob Izowski needed to work on,
27:40
Speaker 2: of course, was his control, right. The walks needed to
27:43
Speaker 2: come down. That has happened this season for his manager,
27:46
Speaker 2: Pat Murphy talked about why the walks have come down
27:50
Speaker 2: and the control has gotten better.
27:52
Speaker 3: It's all about having that consistent delivery and that consistent
27:55
Speaker 3: focus and like I said, the consistent timing, and it
27:57
Speaker 3: really seems like he has.
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Speaker 1: It was magnificent. One of the best performances I've seen
28:03
Speaker 1: in a long time.
28:04
Speaker 2: Pretty high praise there at the end from his manager,
28:06
Speaker 2: that's for sure, and he deserves it. Brewis we'll try
28:08
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, well found Hunter bombguart always amazing
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Speaker 1: by Hunter splicing in some clips there looking sharp.
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Speaker 3: Loved one miss it did look good. People short sleeve
28:36
Speaker 3: it's hot, you know when Hunters were in short sleeves.
28:38
Speaker 3: It's it's pretty warm out there. I love miss casually saying,
28:41
Speaker 3: you know, was this the best you've ever wre most
28:43
Speaker 3: of you were lad in the fast of my best.
28:45
Speaker 6: No, No, it's just this is just normal for me.
28:48
Speaker 3: This is business as usual. I can always throw that
28:50
Speaker 3: thing up there. That's pretty good.
28:52
Speaker 1: I like that. Next to know, I can get away
28:53
Speaker 1: with heaters up. Next to know, I can get away
28:55
Speaker 1: with heaters up.
28:56
Speaker 5: I think you can get away with a lot when
28:57
Speaker 5: you're when you're pumping at through that fast and strikes everywhere.
29:01
Speaker 1: I mean throwing it like that, it'll be good.
29:04
Speaker 5: Also, your the ESPN is finding new uh new super
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Speaker 5: special graphics UH for the speed because now they have
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Speaker 5: flamed numbers to make sure that you don't only show
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Speaker 5: one oh three, Drew. It's way cooler what you show
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Speaker 5: one oh three point four with fire, one O two
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Speaker 5: point nine with fire. Sosums is working out these graphics
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Speaker 5: departments as well, so I hope he understands the kind.
29:25
Speaker 1: Of stress he's putting people in. Gave us a T
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Speaker 1: shirt slogan too. That's what I do. I throw hard,
29:29
Speaker 1: So I do I throw hard.
29:30
Speaker 6: That's perfect.
29:31
Speaker 5: I throw hard, throw hard. Man, that's a beautiful one.
29:34
Speaker 5: I throw hard. And also, I don't know if m
29:37
Speaker 5: is a tattoo guy. That might be that might be
29:38
Speaker 5: a tat that you want to get if you're sitting there.
29:40
Speaker 5: And also we've had a number of different UH Talking
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Speaker 5: text Line messages throughout the weekend. And as much as
29:46
Speaker 5: we're excited and celebrating the UH, the starting pitching and
29:50
Speaker 5: Jacob Mizrawski Drew, we're always looking to get better.
29:53
Speaker 1: We're always looking to get better.
29:54
Speaker 5: Joey Ortiz taken some some absolute arrows on the Talking
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Speaker 5: text line over the weekend. While we're not not even
30:00
Speaker 5: on the air discussing Brewers and Dodgers, people are in
30:03
Speaker 5: here calling for Luis Renhifo and Joey Ortiz. I was
30:06
Speaker 5: at the game on Friday and Sunday, very similar sentiment
30:10
Speaker 5: every single time those guys came up, that there was
30:13
Speaker 5: a feeling that people were anticipating you're seeing some of
30:16
Speaker 5: the final at bats. I guess I wouldn't be so sure,
30:18
Speaker 5: especially Renhifow, but the thought that you could still improve
30:25
Speaker 5: the defense will be some will definitely take a little
30:29
Speaker 5: bit of a step back whenever Joey Ortiz isn't on
30:32
Speaker 5: the field. But there's a lot of people believing that
30:35
Speaker 5: there are even better days for this Brewers team because
30:38
Speaker 5: the thought is Jet Williams and Cooper Pratt are going
30:41
Speaker 5: to come up here and immediately be Alex Rodriguez and
30:44
Speaker 5: Derek Jeter, which I love the.
30:45
Speaker 1: Idea of, or be Caleb Durbin.
30:48
Speaker 5: Find somebody to hit two seventy and you might have
30:50
Speaker 5: a totally different looking offense there at the bottom of.
30:52
Speaker 1: The order, completely completely.
30:54
Speaker 3: But again, yeah, it's like, oh, if they had better
30:56
Speaker 3: production out of the left side of the infield, they
30:58
Speaker 3: might be in first play.
31:00
Speaker 1: Might that's the thing?
31:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, But we're.
31:02
Speaker 5: Battling for that two seed, right We want to stay
31:04
Speaker 5: out of that wildcard round because now officially you're not
31:07
Speaker 5: gonna get made fun of by the hardest of hardcore
31:10
Speaker 5: baseball fans for looking at the standings. We can finally
31:14
Speaker 5: wake up today and look at the schedule, look at
31:16
Speaker 5: the standings and not have the the almighties say, uh, well,
31:21
Speaker 5: that's a fool's Errand at this point, now we're in
31:23
Speaker 5: now we gotta be figuring this out.
31:24
Speaker 3: How you are past the threshold for most there's no
31:26
Speaker 3: question you can do that now, I get it. I mean,
31:29
Speaker 3: there's room to improve on the offense, and it seems
31:32
Speaker 3: to be glaring at those spots.
31:33
Speaker 6: But it seems to me that there's usually.
31:35
Speaker 3: Like you rarely have a perfect lineup offensively, so there's
31:39
Speaker 3: always gonna be spots where fans can say, we could
31:41
Speaker 3: get better here, we can.
31:42
Speaker 1: Get better here.
31:42
Speaker 3: But you have to really wonder about about the defense
31:46
Speaker 3: that Ortiz brings now, and it's getting to be so
31:48
Speaker 3: good in my opinion, that I think you have to
31:49
Speaker 3: wonder that, you know, would it be a good decision
31:52
Speaker 3: even if you replaced him with the bat that was
31:54
Speaker 3: maybe one hundred points better than No.
31:55
Speaker 6: Ps.
31:56
Speaker 3: You know, is it worth it to take away the
31:58
Speaker 3: glove that he's giving you on the field. I don't
31:59
Speaker 3: know he's make it's tough. I think he's making it
32:01
Speaker 3: tough for some when they see that to say, you
32:03
Speaker 3: know what, that is a pretty good glove. But he's
32:06
Speaker 3: gonna be the lightning rod, right and there's always gonna
32:07
Speaker 3: people to say, like, send this guy down, now, bring
32:10
Speaker 3: these other guys up. We can become better, we can
32:11
Speaker 3: be the twenty seven Yankees. I get it, you know,
32:13
Speaker 3: we get excited. I don't know we're asking me the
32:15
Speaker 3: twenty seven Yankees. I think we're just asking to have
32:17
Speaker 3: somebody hitting above the Mentoza line. Well they well, we
32:20
Speaker 3: don't care about it in the right field, but we
32:22
Speaker 3: care about on the left side of the infield. But
32:23
Speaker 3: I get it, you know, it's a different situation. I
32:26
Speaker 3: understand that.
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Speaker 1: That is what it is.
32:28
Speaker 3: What it is right there, there's option, there's always ways
32:30
Speaker 3: to make your team.
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Speaker 5: Well, Sal's also not gonna be playing every day right
32:33
Speaker 5: now that everybody's healthy, I think it's pretty clear that
32:35
Speaker 5: you're gonna find different days where South Freelich is not
32:37
Speaker 5: gonna be in the lineup. But Joey Ortiz will be like,
32:40
Speaker 5: they're gonna find a way just to make sure that
32:42
Speaker 5: he's in the lineup just about every single day.
32:44
Speaker 6: He's their best option there right now. So yes, you
32:46
Speaker 6: would expect that.
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Speaker 1: Nifo and Salar two of the like bottom ten hitters
32:50
Speaker 1: in the mm hmmuly this to this structure early at
32:54
Speaker 1: a lot of ball game left for fifty games in
32:56
Speaker 1: so hard to read too much in two because you know,
32:58
Speaker 1: regression is real and I have bad starts and you
33:02
Speaker 1: know it just happens.
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Speaker 6: Things change comes up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I guess, I guess I.
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Speaker 5: Will, I'll I won't hold my breath for the Joey
33:10
Speaker 5: Ortiz offensive resurgence to come through. Yeah, Like, I mean,
33:13
Speaker 5: I I totally agree that there's definitely room for uh
33:17
Speaker 5: that he could definitely flare up and he could have
33:19
Speaker 5: a great month.
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Speaker 1: I will believe that when I see it.
33:22
Speaker 6: It probably won't get much better.
33:23
Speaker 3: The history has shown us that although he did have
33:26
Speaker 3: more power that first year. Yeah, but can you get
33:28
Speaker 3: into me, he's a two twenty nine career hitter.
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Speaker 6: Right, It is what it is.
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Speaker 1: It is what it is.
33:33
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean, like again, and I know that
33:36
Speaker 5: it rubs some people the wrong, and I don't think
33:38
Speaker 5: that anybody's being mean to the young man. But at
33:40
Speaker 5: this point you get enough opportunities and you're gonna hopefully
33:43
Speaker 5: be able to find somebody with a little bit more.
33:46
Speaker 1: Productive bat there.
33:47
Speaker 5: And I don't know that you're going to be all
33:49
Speaker 5: of a sudden boot and balls left and right and
33:51
Speaker 5: become one of the worst infields of all time if
33:53
Speaker 5: you don't have Joey Ortiz there shortstop.
33:55
Speaker 1: Maybe I am wrong.
33:56
Speaker 3: Ortiz is twenty seven, so should be at the peak
33:59
Speaker 3: of his athleticism and prowess at this juncture.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this would be. This would be the time that
34:05
Speaker 5: you're hitting. This is defensively though he is.
34:10
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing too, is like again the
34:13
Speaker 1: Brewers have the metrics, how many runs is he saving
34:16
Speaker 1: this pitching staff? And is offset the lack of offense
34:19
Speaker 1: right now? Absolutely it does turning it turning ground balls
34:23
Speaker 1: into outs and and turning double but other teams don't.
34:27
Speaker 1: But above replacement.
34:28
Speaker 5: Isn't that why they gave Cooper Pratt the fifty million
34:30
Speaker 5: because he's just as good, if not better, defensively at
34:33
Speaker 5: short time. The idea, that's the idea, that would be
34:36
Speaker 5: the idea. Then at what point do we start thinking
34:39
Speaker 5: we try.
34:40
Speaker 1: That idea we'll see, we'll see. But again, uh, I've
34:44
Speaker 1: seen guys that with you know, good glove reputations come
34:47
Speaker 1: up to the big leagues and it's a different game.
34:49
Speaker 1: Put the third deck on the stadium and it might
34:51
Speaker 1: take a little bit.
34:53
Speaker 3: So your point, though, it's definitely easier to have these
34:55
Speaker 3: discussions when you're winning and you're in first place in
34:57
Speaker 3: the teams winning, because it's like, you know what, we
34:58
Speaker 3: can afford to wa out and see.
35:00
Speaker 1: What cubs are. Cubs are taking on water and they
35:02
Speaker 1: bringing up kids from the minor leagues and throwing them in.
35:04
Speaker 1: They're hoping to catch a spark.
35:06
Speaker 3: You're just feeling the pressure right and tea and teams
35:08
Speaker 3: that are struggling right now that think they're winning, if
35:10
Speaker 3: they do have a good prospect, they'll the voices get
35:13
Speaker 3: louder and louder.
35:13
Speaker 6: So we'll bring this guy up, Bring this guy up.
35:15
Speaker 6: What are we doing? Are we trying to win? We
35:17
Speaker 6: have a hole here, we had but you've.
35:18
Speaker 5: Down given them two months, right like, and at that
35:21
Speaker 5: point you get enough of a chance. You're now getting
35:23
Speaker 5: a third of the season, and at that point it's
35:25
Speaker 5: going to have to be put up or shut up.
35:27
Speaker 5: Time I mean, I don't know that it's I don't
35:29
Speaker 5: know that it's uh just listening to the drum beat.
35:31
Speaker 5: And I think this is a lot of time what
35:33
Speaker 5: you were planning on giving it and giving him in particular,
35:36
Speaker 5: and now you have to start making some decisions.
35:37
Speaker 1: Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
35:38
Speaker 5: Maybe they ride through it with all the way to
35:40
Speaker 5: the All Star break, but I would anticipate that you
35:42
Speaker 5: start looking even more eagerly at trying to find some
35:47
Speaker 5: kind of opportunities to get better there, because you have
35:49
Speaker 5: to try. You got too good of a team to
35:53
Speaker 5: just say, well, we have seven really really productive spots
35:56
Speaker 5: in the lineup.
35:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, try and fill it out all the way.
36:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, though the lineup longer, all right, eight seven
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Speaker 1: seven seven three buying and selling and game balls and
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Speaker 1: kicks of the balls, you can get them to us.
36:08
Speaker 1: Once again, no dolf today, he took that veteran move,
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Speaker 1: extended his vacation. He gets a game ball.
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Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of people that are going
36:15
Speaker 5: to extend the vacation even if they show up today,
36:17
Speaker 5: they're still extending.
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Speaker 1: It's a game ball for that. But uh, that's okay.
36:21
Speaker 1: Because Hunter Bomgart joins us at seven to twenty five
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Speaker 1: to talk Brewers. We're else gonna talk about what happened
36:25
Speaker 1: in the National Basketball Association. Hate to say we told
36:27
Speaker 1: you so, but we told you so. It's the Huddle.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Tuesday edition of the Huddle. Roll
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Speaker 1: talking text one eight seven seven seven nine seven three,
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Speaker 1: Fire up game balls and kicks the balls. I know
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Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, but Armin, you got any sounders for us?
36:51
Speaker 1: What does a game ball sound like today?
36:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, just give me a second here, guys, I've got
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Speaker 3: the I've got sounders for both.
36:57
Speaker 1: Well. O'll standing because I didn't even call it an
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Speaker 1: audible because I don't want to cheat people out of
37:01
Speaker 1: the chance to give out game kicks. Because we missed
37:03
Speaker 1: the Monday show. Everybody was just chilling, whether you were
37:06
Speaker 1: watching the Brewers or whatever. Uh, it's hanging out. Spend
37:11
Speaker 1: a time with family and friends, going to parades, doing
37:13
Speaker 1: all the whole thing. Some people do their flower planting on.
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Speaker 6: Memorial it's a big gardening weekend.
37:18
Speaker 1: Big gardening weekend. Yeah, I'm sure it was packed all
37:21
Speaker 1: over the club, the garden stores. So anyway, if you
37:25
Speaker 1: want to award a game ball in the program for
37:26
Speaker 1: a job well done, give a kudo and out of boy,
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Speaker 1: this is that.
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Speaker 6: Once it's unfreezes here, guys, all right, let's there we go.
37:38
Speaker 6: That was it? Right there?
37:39
Speaker 1: That was it? I missed. It leads to an ovation.
37:43
Speaker 1: Miss there's miss getting that after that last out in
37:47
Speaker 1: the seventh any all right. Conversely, kick to the balls
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Speaker 1: today and the program sounds like this.
37:52
Speaker 6: We gotta play better.
37:54
Speaker 1: Haven't heard that before? Got to play better?
37:56
Speaker 3: So you could have picked now, you could have picked
37:58
Speaker 3: that one out from any of the last week of
38:00
Speaker 3: games during.
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Speaker 1: His Brewers tenure, because I had a few times when
38:03
Speaker 1: he was here. Point yeah, a lot of those.
38:05
Speaker 3: It's been the very common reframes have lost nine in
38:09
Speaker 3: a row and they don't have they haven't had.
38:12
Speaker 5: They haven't won since the PCA incident with.
38:16
Speaker 1: That's right, it's the old uh, it's the curse of
38:18
Speaker 1: the the fiance.
38:20
Speaker 5: And now listen there there have been a lot of
38:21
Speaker 5: fiances that may or may not have put curses on
38:23
Speaker 5: different individuals, and some would say that they came and
38:26
Speaker 5: ruined friendships and ruined relationship. Hopefully this one's ruining the
38:29
Speaker 5: Cubs relationship. Cubs their offense.
38:33
Speaker 1: You look and people go through look at these batting
38:35
Speaker 1: averages called nemic they are, and they haven't had They
38:38
Speaker 1: have a decent team. They had these ten game winning streaks,
38:41
Speaker 1: but it was always like one guy's hot. Ian happ
38:43
Speaker 1: has carried him right now right, and it's like, oh, okay,
38:47
Speaker 1: or whoever is Michael Bush is playing great? Whoever? It
38:49
Speaker 1: is like somebody. They haven't had everybody hot at the
38:52
Speaker 1: same time. PCA hasn't been hot, Bregman, they haven't.
38:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, the break clicked well in last year, Tucker started
38:59
Speaker 5: uh hot as a pistol right for the first three months,
39:02
Speaker 5: he was one of the best players in baseball. PCA
39:04
Speaker 5: was in the MVP conversation last year. Uh and and
39:06
Speaker 5: I do believe they're gonna have a big run again
39:09
Speaker 5: in them and PCA is gonna get hot whenever he's
39:13
Speaker 5: able to clear this stuff up with with the young
39:15
Speaker 5: lady at Sox Park. He put that thing behind him
39:17
Speaker 5: maybe or or maybe the best best days are behind him.
39:22
Speaker 5: I would I'm wish casting on that one, and I
39:24
Speaker 5: would love for that to be the case, Uh. I
39:26
Speaker 5: think you're you're seeing though, a team drew that does struggle.
39:31
Speaker 5: And I think we saw this a lot too last
39:33
Speaker 5: year with the UH with the Packers.
39:35
Speaker 1: When it's good, it is good.
39:38
Speaker 5: But when that thing starts sliding, they have been prone
39:41
Speaker 5: to the avalanche rolling down the mountain and not being
39:44
Speaker 5: able to stop that momentum against him. That's something you
39:47
Speaker 5: gotta learn, I think, and and I do believe they will.
39:50
Speaker 5: They have plenty of games to be able to do it.
39:53
Speaker 5: The Packers never were able to though, right like I
39:55
Speaker 5: mean later end of the year. It was exactly what
39:58
Speaker 5: bit them UH five straight times and ended up bouncing
40:02
Speaker 5: them out of the playoffs was the fact that once
40:04
Speaker 5: things went awry, they were unable to course correct and
40:08
Speaker 5: get that train back onto the tracks.
40:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is there is some some saucer taking now
40:14
Speaker 3: in that fact. I think the fact is there was
40:16
Speaker 3: a little bit of worry, at least for me early
40:18
Speaker 3: May you know, late April, that this team could this
40:20
Speaker 3: Cups team could possibly just be an absolute freight train
40:24
Speaker 3: of a wagon that was gonna waste everybody in the
40:26
Speaker 3: Central go on, win one hundred plus games and then
40:28
Speaker 3: that's all she wrote, but now.
40:30
Speaker 6: It's like, all right, you see the losing streak.
40:32
Speaker 3: You see they have a potential to be a little
40:33
Speaker 3: paper machet, And that's what you enjoy seeing saying, all right,
40:36
Speaker 3: maybe this isn't gonna be a perfect team. They're gonna
40:38
Speaker 3: be They're gonna be flawed. They might go back on streaks,
40:40
Speaker 3: they might win games again, it might be a battle
40:42
Speaker 3: throughout the summer. But at least we know they have
40:44
Speaker 3: some sort of flaws in them that that you know,
40:48
Speaker 3: make them prone to crumbling every now and then. And
40:51
Speaker 3: the reality is they're just missing so much from the
40:53
Speaker 3: pitching right now that if their offense is not more consistent,
40:57
Speaker 3: they're really gonna be struggled.
40:58
Speaker 6: To win a lot of games in a row.
41:00
Speaker 3: And that was Craig's reframed the rest of US press,
41:02
Speaker 3: and when I was listening to that, it was basically
41:04
Speaker 3: he said, we're more equipped to be much more consistent
41:08
Speaker 3: offensively than we're doing right now, so we have to
41:10
Speaker 3: hit better, which is always what Craig says. He's gotta
41:12
Speaker 3: be better, So also pitching for them too, because they're
41:15
Speaker 3: missing inconsistently right The sportsbooks have finally taken full notice guys.
41:20
Speaker 5: As the Brewers now at the Potawatami Sportsbook minus one
41:23
Speaker 5: ten to win the NL Central the Cubs plus one ninety.
41:26
Speaker 5: The cub has been a resounding favorite throughout the entire
41:31
Speaker 5: season and offseason leading in here and the Brewers completely
41:34
Speaker 5: flipped the script.
41:35
Speaker 6: Now.
41:35
Speaker 5: Part of that is because they're healthy, right Like, I
41:38
Speaker 5: think that's one of the biggest parts for the Brewers
41:40
Speaker 5: is stay healthy in on that lineup, and you're gonna
41:43
Speaker 5: be able to make this a very, very fun summer.
41:45
Speaker 5: But I do think as fun as this is right now,
41:48
Speaker 5: and as much as I'm enjoying the Brewers in the
41:49
Speaker 5: first place, I think they're they're gonna trade blows back
41:52
Speaker 5: and forth through July and August, and it's gonna set
41:54
Speaker 5: up for a heck of a summer between these two clubs.
41:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll be a battle.
41:59
Speaker 1: Totally agreed, all right. Eight seven seven seven nine four
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Speaker 1: text line. Oh, we got plenty of unpacked today, game
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Speaker 1: balls and kicks, buying and selling. We'll get the whole
42:11
Speaker 1: shot for you, because you know, it's the Tuesday that
42:15
Speaker 1: feels like a Monday, and we're on the summer. It's
42:18
Speaker 1: already May twenty six today.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and let's also be honest with it, there's probably
42:23
Speaker 5: some people that are sneakily hungover today, very well, right,
42:27
Speaker 5: like where all of a sudden you wake up and.
42:29
Speaker 1: You're like, goodness, gracious, why is my head hurt?
42:32
Speaker 5: You're right, Oh, it was those six highlights I had
42:35
Speaker 5: in the sun last night. Oh, it was sitting by
42:38
Speaker 5: the grill getting cooked by the oven.
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Speaker 1: That's why. That's what it was.
42:42
Speaker 5: Dehydration and the five or six PBRs that I had.
42:45
Speaker 5: That makes sense, amazing, Yes, indeed, all right, our one
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Speaker 5: is in the books for this week. You're listening to
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